13-letter words containing c, i, d, e, r
- decision tree — a treelike diagram illustrating the choices available to a decision maker, each possible decision and its estimated outcome being shown as a separate branch of the tree
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- decorticating — Present participle of decorticate.
- decortication — the act or process of decorticating.
- decrepitating — Present participle of decrepitate.
- decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- decriminalize — When a criminal offence is decriminalized, the law changes so that it is no longer a criminal offence.
- deculturalize — to expose or subject to the influence of culture.
- deculturation — to cause the loss or abandonment of culture or cultural characteristics of (a people, society, etc.).
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- dendrological — Of, pertaining to dendrology.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- dental caries — cavity formation in teeth caused by bacteria that attach to teeth and form acids in the presence of sucrose, other sugars, and refined starches; tooth decay.
- dentosurgical — relating to or used in both dentistry and surgery
- denuclearized — Simple past tense and past participle of denuclearize.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
- depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
- derived curve — a curve whose equation is the derivative of the equation of a given curve.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
- desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- deserticolous — living or growing in a desert.
- destructional — of or pertaining to destruction
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- desynchronize — Disturb the synchronization of; put out of step or phase.
- deterministic — Deterministic ideas or explanations are based on determinism.
- deuteroscopic — of or relating to deuteroscopy; of second sight
- device driver — (operating system) Software to control a hardware component or peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer. A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardware registers of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device. Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of the operating system kernel, with which they are linked when the kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadable device drivers which can be installed from files after the operating system is running.
- dextrocardiac — a person whose heart is on the right side of his or her chest
- diametrically — If you say that two things are diametrically opposed, you are emphasizing that they are completely different from each other.
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- diazo process — a method for printing on paper treated with a diazo compound that disintegrates upon exposure to light and developing the unexposed areas by the use of diazo dyes.
- dick size war — penis war